Hotkey declaration: how to map a sequence of keystrokes as the Hotkey?

[llinfeng]

I am using a beautiful script written by John Guidry [iswitchw] to summon my "opened windows". Yet, I would like to remap the hotkey to activate the script.

Question: how to I declare the following sequence of keystrokes as a hotkey?

• 1. While holding Ctrl key, press the Space bar twice
  2. While holding Ctrl key, press Space bar three times

I find myself mistype `^Space` (Ctrl + Space) a lot, when editing my texts.

[Rohwedder]

Hallo,
try:

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^Space::
SetTimer, No, -500
No++
Return
No:
	If No > 1
		MsgBox, % No " ^Spaces"
	No =
Return

[llinfeng]

Hallo,
try:

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^Space::
SetTimer, No, -500
No++
Return
No:
	If No > 1
		MsgBox, % No " ^Spaces"
	No =
Return

Thanks for your script, after the attached error message when I run the script afresh, I do get a message box displaying how many spaces I've run. Yet, are there a easier syntax that will declare such sequence of key-strokes as a "standalone shortcut"? Ideally, I am looking for a magic syntax of the following form:

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[Something Magic, ^DoubleSpace]::

In particular, I would like to replace the mapping of `#space` on line 79 in the source file: iswitchw.ahk. Based on my limited AHK knowledge, I don't quite understand the control structure in the source file.

Questions in short:

• 1. How to properly initialize the counter variable `No`?
  2. Are there magical syntax that defines Ctrl+DoubleSpace, that I can put to the left of a `::` sign?

Thanks a lot!

[swagfag]

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^Space::expectSecondSpace := true

#If expectSecondSpace
^Space::
{
	MsgBox, % "ctrl+space+space"
	expectSecondSpace := false
return
}
#If

~*Ctrl Up::expectSecondSpace := false

Esc::ExitApp

e: return was missing

[Rohwedder]

Hallo,
untested!
1. comment out: #Warn in line 60
2. replace

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#space

by

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DSpace:
DSpace =
Hotkey, ~*Ctrl Up, Off
Return
^Space::
DSpace++
Hotkey, ~*Ctrl Up, DSpace
If DSpace < 2
	Return
Gosub, DSpace

[llinfeng]

Hallo,
untested!
1. comment out: #Warn in line 60
2. replace

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#space

by

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DSpace:
DSpace =
Hotkey, ~*Ctrl Up, Off
Return
^Space::
DSpace++
Hotkey, ~*Ctrl Up, DSpace
If DSpace < 2
	Return
Gosub, DSpace

I think we are close. Yet, the attached error message is generated, pointing out that `~*Ctrl Up` is not a valid hotkey.

I am attaching both the error message and the current version of the script.

Thanks a lot!

[llinfeng]

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^Space::expectSecondSpace := true

#If expectSecondSpace
^Space::
{
	MsgBox, % "ctrl+space+space"
	expectSecondSpace := false
}
#If

~*Ctrl Up::expectSecondSpace := false

Esc::ExitApp

Thank you for your suggestion!

[llinfeng]

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^Space::expectSecondSpace := true

#If expectSecondSpace
^Space::
{
	MsgBox, % "ctrl+space+space"
	expectSecondSpace := false
}
#If

~*Ctrl Up::expectSecondSpace := false

Esc::ExitApp

Thank you for your suggestion!